Printing and scanning in Ubuntu proved to be much easier than expected. Ubuntu easily recognized the HP Photosmart C3500 series that I had, and right away I was able to print documents off the text editor. The Scanning application (XSANE) was a breeze to operate and I was able to scan documents to various formats.
However, my favorite lightweight editor on windows was SciTe, so I installed it in ubuntu also, and tried to print from it. Turns out SciTe uses the "a2ps" program to print, and it was not able to direct the output to the printer. A bit of googling told me that replacing a2ps with "enscript" would be able to do it. So I replaced the print options in SciTeGlobal.properties file, but now I get an error that its not able to find the printer class. Guess I will have to look into this more.
But besides that, the printing and scanning functionality works like a charm in Ubuntu.
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